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Comment by nzeid | Hacker News Reader

Goddamnit, I just moved everything to Namecheap to avoid more outages. Anyone have other recommendations in the event of the likely private equity rot?

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If all you care about is avoiding outages and price then it is hard to beat cloudflare.

iirc Cloudflare doesn't act like a normal registrar, however. You cannot use anyone except Cloudflare for your DNS provider.

Looks like easyDNS and Porkbun are recommended.

(May have to test the waters at each.)

I highly recommend Porkbun. Very consistently great for almost a decade now.

I have domains on namecheap that are over a decade old. Time means nothing.

I've been using Gandi for years and recently have been consolidating things there. In the past I've used Google and still have some stuff and Namecheap too.

Gandi is a little more expensive, but are consistently excellent. Especially now with their new UX and org support, it's super easy to manage domains from both corporate and personal accounts with one login.

Gandi was also bought out by private equity a few years ago, as far as I know their service is still fine but they keep raising their prices without any rhyme or reason. They want $38 to renew a .com now, and despite those price hikes they also rugpulled users of their previously-included email service by turning it into a paid add-on.

Look forward to Namecheap heading the same way in a few years!

Oh yeah? Dammit, I must have missed that news. That sucks. :-(

I’m happy with Porkbun.

I switched to porkbun for some work stuff and really like it

Looks like easyDNS was recommended.

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